Quotes About Practice

It was the kind of love (lust, to be honest about it) that survivors of disasters must practise – or people who are anticipating disaster – free of all restraint, savage at times and yet strangely tender and affectionate.

She thought of Dr Kellet and Pindar. Become such as you are, having learned what that is. She knew what that was now. She was Ursula Beresford Todd and she was a witness. She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

clearly, I am going to need a lot more practice—practice in being present, practice in feeling my feelings and in letting them go, practice in loving, in accepting, and especially practice in holding those most dear to me with a lighter touch. At least I have learned this: It all is a practice. I just have to show up and keep on practicing. Breathe. Relax. Feel. Watch. Allow.

I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right.

For it is, in practice, simply not possible to adopt such a critical attitude towards an employer and at the same time provide good service.

Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

Derek) No casting? No practicing? He shook his head. Don't tell Simon that. Don't tell Simon what? said a voice behind us. We turned to see Simon step out of the doorway. That Tori doesn't need to use incantations to cast, Derek said. Seriously? He swore. You're right. Don't tell me. He picked his way across the roof. Better yet, don't tell her that I need incantations and weeks of practice, and I still suck.

it did afford him the opportunity to pursue the science of death, and I daresay he enjoys that far more than he would a standard surgical practice. His interest has always been in the science." "A researcher rather than a practitioner.

Grégory avait un esprit tordu qui convenait parfaitement à qui voulait pratiquer le droit.

As we said, Zen masters talk about Emptiness all the time! But they have a practice and a methodology (zazen) which allows them to discover the transcendental referent via their own developmental signified, and thus their words (the signifiers) remain grounded in experiential, reproducible, fallibilist criteria.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Habit is necessary to give power.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

The power of habit is very strong.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D

You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.